Crude interventions
Subtitle: the US, oil and the new world (dis)order
By: Garry Leech
Publisher: SIRD; University of KwaZulu-Natal Press; Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Pietermaritzburg, S.A; London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- United States; United States -- Foreign economic relations -- 21st century; United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century
Description: "Crude interventions examines the military and economic policies of the Bush administration in oil-rich regions of the world. More precisely, it examines the socio-economic and human rights consequences of these policies, as well as those of recent US administrations and multinational energy companies, for the peoples of oil-producing nations in the global South. With only 4 per cent of the world's population, the United States consumes 25 per cent of global energy production. This thirst for energy has played a significant role in determining US foreign policy in recent decades. The desire to secure access to reliable supplies of oil has played an even more prominent role in determining the foreign policy of the government of George W. Bush than of previous administrations." "By focusing on the US role in Iraq, Central Asia, West Africa, Colombia and Venezuela, Crude Interventions makes evident the connections between US energy interests, the war on terror, globalization, human rights abuses and other social injustices endured by those peoples of the South cursed with an abundance of the world's most sought after resource."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-240) and index
Table of contents: title: Iraq : seeking the riches of Babylon; title: Central Asia : the Silk Road strategy; title: West Africa : exploiting the other gulf; title: Colombia : feeding Washington's addiction; title: Venezuela : an alternative for the twenty-first century?